James Tangen

Assistant Professor in Criminology. Researching probation, human rights & digital criminology. Views are my own.

[James Tangen @James_Tangen]

And I think I'm done with this site. If you know me, you know why.

Find me on the other side, where the sky is... well, you get the drift.

[James Tangen @James_Tangen]

Great to see so many friends and colleagues at the 1st Annual Conference of @BSC_PCJ

It's a packed agenda with some really interesting and important research about where #probation is currently and where we want to see it go in the future.

[Silvia Masiero @SilviaHedley]

Best shoutout by amazing colleague @phat_controller! I hope you like #UnfairID and simply can’t wait to discuss it with you when I see you next! 📕💛

[Nicola Collett @nicola_collett]

I am immensely proud of this work! I hope it goes some way to challenge perceptions of people with criminal records, and to encourage conversation on how we can create a fairer and more inclusive society. Thank you to everyone who took part, and @unlockcharity for your support.

[BSC Probation & Community Justice Network @BSC_PCJ]

This event seeks to advance the Network’s aim to critically examine & stimulate debate about #communityjustice #research & provide a platform to promote academic contributions and interventions to contemporary debates about #probation & community justice.

[BSC Probation & Community Justice Network @BSC_PCJ]

BSC Probation & Community Justice Network 1st Annual Conference: Where next for Probation and community justice? Tuesday 14 January 2025 @sheffhallamuni

#CfP Deadline: 5pm, Friday 29 November 2024

PGR & ECR proposals particularly welcome #ECRChat #PhD

https://t.co/F6eaFs4zhk

[James Tangen @James_Tangen]

@Burnt2020 @RobLaurensonD4P @AoMRC Independent of whom? Appointed by whom?

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@BramhamAlex @tkknowles9 @ginamartinuk Have you heard of cognitive-behavioural psychology at all? It's gonna blow your mind.

[Prison Service Journal @PSJ_UK]

@AnnieSnowden @UoNSociology @UoNSocialSci @james_tangen @alisongardner12 @ma_jovanovic @slaveryPEC @Uni_of_Essex @EssexLawSchool @EssexHRC @WilberforceHull @AliciaHeys

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Prof Stephen Reicher, "I would appeal to you to not call these people protestors. They're not protestors"

"To call them protestors is profoundly misleading. It is to discredit a long tradition of perfectly legitimate and peaceful and important protest that has made our society better in many ways"

"What's going on is specific to these crowds.. Crowd psychology is there when people are cleaning up the streets as well as attacking the streets.. The difference is one group has an ideology of hate and violence, another has a vision of community and solidarity"

"Most people are pro immigration.. The irony is that over recent years attitudes towards immigration has become more positive.. People see immigrants as a boom rather than as a menace to the country.. Britain is one of the more liberal countries"

"If we didn't have migrants then our care service would fall apart, our NHS would fall apart.. It's important not to highlight the negative exceptions, but to show that most people are pro migrants"

[James Tangen @James_Tangen]

@jimbrownblog However, as a newly minted SPO I attended a public meeting for the local CSP. The ChSupt was asked about police performance on public protection, his reply: "we aren't measured on that, only probation has those kind of metrics". Funny how that doesn't match public perception.

[James Tangen @James_Tangen]

@jimbrownblog When I was a PO we tried to protect the public by reducing reoffending, largely achieved by engaging people to secure their basic needs and guide them towards what would motive them to avoid the CJ system again. Public protection was a secondary goal, indirectly achieved.

[James Tangen @James_Tangen]

@jimbrownblog What's really telling in amongst some of these posts @jimbrownblog is that probation now needs to be prefaced by the word 'community' to let people know the author doesn't mean something done in a prison 😔

[Ailie Rennie @ailie_rennie]

On the day @BSC2024Strath draws to a close, I’m very excited to announce that I’ve got a new publication out in the @PSJ_UK detailing some more findings from my PhD about relational re/integration and withdrawal following release from a life sentence 🔔 Check it out here! ⬇️

[Nicola Collett @nicola_collett]

My partner is doing the Thames Path Challenge 100K walk to fundraise for War Child. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/tvEK3Y745L

[Rehabilitating Probation Project @ProbationRes]

The Rehabilitating Probation team have been on the road again, this time for a project panel at @BSC2024Strath Great to be able to share insights from the research and explore challenges being faced by those delivering rehabilitation @ESRC @HarryAnnison @NicolaCarr @m_millings

[James Tangen @James_Tangen]

@PoliSciJack Surprising lack of comment about the narrative of Labour has already won before polling stations opened may have suppressed voter turnout - labour support may be larger than represented, or it could be a further strategic own goal by the Cons.

[Nicola Collett @nicola_collett]

At @BSC2024Strath , I’ll be illustrating how criminal record disclosure acts as a catalyst for identity work, and exploring the narrative labour that goes into maintaining and reconstructing ‘non-criminal’ identities - part of a great #narrativecriminology panel ✨

[James Tangen @James_Tangen]

@WarrCriminology Another example to illustrate tour point - I'd add quote marks around the 'care' below, but its not my headline or byline.

BBC News - 'Locked up far from my family': The teens in care detained by law - BBC News
https://t.co/MfNLGFW4us